Code With Jim

My personal interest in Wolfram from the start is because of Wolfram's BIG KNOWLEDGE BASE. And also the way Wolfram could "filter" and "re-present" those data back to users in an interactive and rich kind of way. I supposed it would be a really good personal case study and research for DATA VISUALIZATION . If you are interested in Data Science, you should also check thing like R Programming. Or maybe look up some ways Python can process data. SomethingData[] Now, we know that Wolfram knows A LOT. However to access those knowledge, we need some kind of understanding about the way Wolfram store the data. We can tell Wolfram to QUERY data using Wolfram Language SYMBOL, which I believe it will give you ENTITY, and further more the PROPERTIES of ENTITY. For example: 1) Supposed we want to know more about our PLANET: Earth . Wolfram recognize this "Earth" as a String. What if we want to actually find out more about ENTITY called EARTH? 2) We cou...

GOOGLE EVERYTHING, THEN WOLFRAM EVERYTHING? By today, we all sure already got used to idea of SEARCHING all kind of knowledge and information using GOOGLE SEARCH (or other search engine, such as DuckDuckGo) and expecting results from websites that we later we can filter and sort ourselves. Searching and browsing IMAGES, VIDEOS, and all kind of useful INFORMATION, such as a more organized WIKIPEDIA or the messy webs becomes our second nature. We are pretty fast at it too. We are in the era of too much informations. I do not mind this "dumb lazy but fast way to search for information", but I suddenly recall myself when I was a kid and browsing pages of thick Encyclopedia books. Then later come Encycplopedia CDs, with audio and sound .... and then the INTERNET. The Internet and Google have surely changed a lot in our way to access information and knowledge. People can learn a lot from the Internet (well, minus some junks information and hoaxes, etc.). However, I think,...

I've explored Wolfram Language (cloud) in a heuristic fashion for about a week now. Although still in infancy mode, and I was only doing trivial commands, things get interesting and fun really quickly. If you are also interested to look into Wolfram, then "An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language" book by Stephen Wolfram and Wolfram Programming Lab EXPLORE should give you some stuffs to try and think about. You will get used to seeing single liner syntax like below: Commands[ Commands [ {List of Entity}, Argument, Argument] ]  The powerful thing about Wolfram Language is that of the DATA KNOWLEDGE and the way it displays INFORMATION and CAN present it back to user in visual, audio, and interactive rich almost instantly. SEE ALSO: Mathematica Language => this Mathematica also uses Wolfram Language (or more correctly, Wolfram Language is originated from Mathematica. And if you like to do calculations and algorithm, I think Mathematica is great. Wolf...

A BIT OF PERSONAL CODING HISTORY... Today, I decided to start a new blog that just deals with GENERAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S), not tied or specific to certain software like what I might have done in the past. I just need another blog to store quick ideas, exploration, my own notes that might be useful for beginner programming. My programming journey actually started just few years back ago. I used to be a little bit afraid of programming, but I do realize at some point that I MUST learn to code or program in order to go far (my background is in Computer Graphic Design and Graphics). A bit like learning to draw or to cook, this programming stuff actually took me quite a while to have that *SPARK JOY* of programming, beyond just the ability to type the syntax correctly and not making error. Understanding the CONCEPT is crucial, while learning the LANGUAGE and actually make something useful. I know it myself that I am very far from being master of coding and making apps and such...